Manuel Portela Valladares

Manuel Portela Valladares (31 January 1868-29 April 1952) was Prime Minister of Republican Spain from 14 December 1935 to 19 February 1936, succeeding Joaquin Chapaprieta Torregrosa and preceding Manuel Azana Diaz.

Biography
Manuel Portela Valladares was born on 31 January 1868 in Pontevedra, Spain. He studied at a Jesuit college and then the University of Santiago de Compostela, and in 1905 he became a member of the Cortes from the Lugo district. In 1910 he became Governor of Barcelona, serving until 1923, as a member of the Spanish Liberal Party. In 1935, he briefly served as Minister of the Interior following the revolution that established the Second Spanish Republic, but on 14 December 1935 he was elected as the new Prime Minister of Spain. He served as Prime Minister for two elections before the Frente Popular took power on 19 February 1936, and he left office. He went into exile in France after the Spanish Civil War, and he died in Bandol in 1952.